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SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, (THEWILL) - French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy was detained for questioning on Tuesday over allegations that late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi financed his 2007 election campaign, including with suitcases stuffed with cash. Sarkozy was taken into police custody...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) - Russian President Vladimir Putin won a landslide re-election victory on Sunday, extending his rule over the world’s largest country for another six years. Putin’s victory will take his political dominance of Russia to nearly a...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, (THEWILL) - Russia has announced the expulsion of 23 British diplomats as its row with London, over a nerve-agent attack on a former double agent, Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, on British soil, escalates. Skripal,...

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has been sacked days before he could retire with pension rights. He was fired by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who said an internal review found he leaked information and misled investigators. Mr McCabe denied...

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma is to face prosecution for 16 charges of corruption relating to a multi-billion-dollar arms deal. The case centres on a 30bn rand ($2.5bn; £1.7bn) deal to modernise the country's defence in the late 1990s. The...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 14, (THEWILL) - Britain has expelled 23 Russian diplomats in response to a nerve agent attack on a Russian former double agent in southern England, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday, adding it was the biggest...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, (THEWILL) - China on Sunday removed term limits from its constitution, paving the way for Xi Jinping to remain President for as long as possible. The move reverses the era of 'collective' leadership and orderly succession that...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 06, (THEWILL) - A Russian transport plane crashed on landing at Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in Syria, killing all 32 on board, the defence ministry said in a statement carried by RIA Novosti. There were 26 passengers and 6...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 25, (THEWILL) - Christian leaders took the rare step on Sunday of closing Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built where tradition holds Jesus was buried, in protest at Israeli tax measures and a proposed property law. It...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 25, (THEWILL) - UN staffers in Geneva are planning a half-day strike over pay cut on Tuesday as dozens of Ministers and other dignitaries attend high-level events at the organisation’s European headquarters. "We have tried other forms...